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Diary of a Writing Project. Day 153-154: On the importance of boredom

It is so not productive, so not doing… something.

The day was bright, clear blue sky, snow trying to melt under the blinding sun.

A giant, pointy ice stalactite formed at the end of a gutter. Drop after drop.

I watched part of it happen. It was a great thirty seconds. Then I move on with my boredom from where I was standing to the couch, on which I drop like the proverbial potato.

When was the last time I got bored, I wondered. It’s such a luxury very few can afford, doing nothing. Starting with yours truly.

It is so not productive, so not doing… something.

It’s soooo great to get to be bored.

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Diary of a Writing Project. Day 151: Celebrating drafting milestones in green

I deleted some 10 000 words in the process or revising and getting the first draft ready to… first… draft. For once, I didn’t like a huge failure for deleting all those words. Progress in the writer process, I guess.

The 35 000 words milestones has been reach!

I am so happy, but… but yeah, I still feel like I have to step on it to make up for all the words I ended up deleting while getting the First Draft ready.

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Diary of a Writing Project. Day 150: dealing with multiple writing projects

That being said, not letting life interfere with writing is dang hard when you’re a parent of young children.

By chasing many rabbits at the same time, you catch none. Or something like that.

Same goes for working at multiple writing projects. By doing little everywhere, it’s hard to see progress on anything.
It’s then easy to get discouraged. Or start to feel overwhelmed.

How to manage multiple projects is quite simple: be discipline, schedule writing time, leave the new ideas alone in a notebook, keep writing and, the most important thing of all… the « don’t give up » one!

Easier said than done.

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